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XIV. – SOMETHING ELSE.

Posted on October 26, 2020 by studentofliberty

Did Robinson not see that the time he saved he could devote to doing something else?

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XIII. – PROTECTION, OR THE THREE MUNICIPAL MAGISTRATES.

Posted on October 23, 2020March 31, 2023 by studentofliberty

This is how monopoly, like any form of injustice, carries within itself the seed of its own punishment.

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XIII. – LA PROTECTION OU LES TROIS ÉCHEVINS.

Posted on October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 by studentofliberty

C’est ainsi que le monopole, comme toute injustice, porte en lui même son propre châtiment.

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XII. – LE SEL, LA POSTE, LA DOUANE.

Posted on October 22, 2020 by studentofliberty

Les affections, les sentiments, les épanchements de l’amour et de l’amitié ne seront pas, comme aujourd’hui, refoulés de la main du fisc au fond des cœurs.

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XII. – SALT, THE MAIL, AND THE CUSTOMS SERVICE.

Posted on October 22, 2020 by studentofliberty

The affections, feelings, and outpourings of love and friendship will not, as they are today, be buried in the depths of people’s hearts by the hand of the tax man.

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XI. – THE UTOPIAN.

Posted on October 21, 2020 by studentofliberty

Oh yes! You are reducing revenue without reducing expenditure and you will avoid a deficit?

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XI. – L’UTOPISTE.

Posted on October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 by studentofliberty

Oui-dà! Vous diminuez la recette sans diminuer la dépense, et vous évitez le déficit?

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X. – LE PERCEPTEUR.

Posted on October 20, 2020 by studentofliberty

La chambre a compris que, si cela continuait ainsi, M.D… serait dans l’alternative ou de mieux opérer ou de fermer son usine.

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X. – THE TAX COLLECTOR.

Posted on October 20, 2020 by studentofliberty

The Chamber has understood that if this continued M. D . . . would face the choice of either having to operate his factory better or closing it.

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IX. – THEFT BY SUBSIDY.

Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 by studentofliberty

Dono tibi et concedo, Virtutem et puissantiam, Volandi, Pilandi, Derobandi, Filoutandi, Et escroquandi, Impunè per totam istam, Viam.

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IX. – LE VOL A LA PRIME.

Posted on October 19, 2020 by studentofliberty

Dono tibi et concedo, Virtutem et puissantiam, Volandi, Pilandi, Derobandi, Filoutandi, Et escroquandi, Impunè per totam istam, Viam.

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VIII. – POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC.

Posted on October 16, 2020 by studentofliberty

Et l’on vient accuser la liberté des désastres qu’elle prévient et répare du moins en partie!

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VIII. – POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC.

Posted on October 16, 2020 by studentofliberty

And yet people come forward to accuse freedom of the disasters that it prevents and puts right, at least in part!

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VII. – A CHINESE TALE.

Posted on October 15, 2020 by studentofliberty

I can see that, in a little while, we will be short of everything, because we will no longer have any need to make anything.

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VII. – CONTE CHINOIS.

Posted on October 15, 2020 by studentofliberty

Je vois bien qu’avant peu nous manquerons de tout, puisque nous n’aurons plus besoin de rien faire.

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VI. – AUX ARTISANS ET AUX OUVRIERS.

Posted on October 14, 2020February 9, 2023 by studentofliberty

Pour convertir la laine en drap, ces messieurs ne veulent pas la concurrence, parce que c’est leur métier; mais, pour convertir le drap en habits, ils l’admettent fort bien, parce que c’est le vôtre.

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VI. – TO ARTISANS AND WORKERS.

Posted on October 14, 2020 by studentofliberty

These people do not want any competition for their changing wool into cloth because it is their trade, but they are all too willing to accept competition for the converting of cloth into suits because it is yours.

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V. – HIGH PRICES, LOW PRICES.

Posted on October 13, 2020 by studentofliberty

Doubtless, foreign competition and even competition in general is always a nuisance, and if a branch of activity were able to break free of it on its own, it would do good business for a time.

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V. – CHERTÉ, BON MARCHÉ.

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 by studentofliberty

Sans doute, la concurrence étrangère, et même la concurrence en général, est toujours importune; et si une profession pouvait s’en affranchir seule, elle ferait pendant quelque temps de bonnes affaires.

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IV. – CONSEIL INFÉRIEUR DU TRAVAIL.

Posted on October 12, 2020 by studentofliberty

Mieux vaut se soutenir par soi-même, au milieu d’une clientèle aisée, que d’être protégé au milieu d’une clientèle appauvrie.

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IV. – THE LOWER COUNCIL OF LABOR.

Posted on October 12, 2020 by studentofliberty

It is better to provide for oneself surrounded by prosperous customers than to be protected surrounded by impoverished ones.

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III. – THE TWO AXES.

Posted on October 9, 2020 by studentofliberty

Between you and the Belgians, therefore, there is just about the same difference as between a dull and sharp axe.

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III. – LES DEUX HACHES.

Posted on October 9, 2020 by studentofliberty

Entre vous et un Belge il y a donc tout juste la différence d’une hache obtuse à une hache affilée.

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II. – DEUX MORALES.

Posted on October 8, 2020February 1, 2021 by studentofliberty

“Tu mangeras ton pain à la sueur de ton front.” – Mais chacun veut le plus de pain et le moins de sueur possible.

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II. – TWO MORAL PHILOSOPHIES.

Posted on October 8, 2020February 1, 2021 by studentofliberty

“By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread.” But everyone wants as much bread and as little sweat as possible.

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I. – THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PLUNDER.

Posted on October 7, 2020 by studentofliberty

There are only two ways of acquiring the things that are necessary for the preservation, improvement, and betterment of life: PRODUCTION and PLUNDER.

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I. – PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA SPOLIATION.

Posted on October 7, 2020 by studentofliberty

Il n’y a que deux moyens de se procurer les choses nécessaires à la conservation, à l’embellissement et au perfectionnement de la vie: la PRODUCTION et la SPOLIATION.

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CONCLUSION.

Posted on October 6, 2020 by studentofliberty

Après tout, je n’aspire pas précisément à faire naître des convictions, mais des doutes.

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CONCLUSION

Posted on October 6, 2020 by studentofliberty

After all, my intention is not exactly to lay the ground for deeply held convictions but to sow the seeds of doubt.

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XXII. – METAPHORS.

Posted on October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 by studentofliberty

The meaning of three or four words is altered, strained, and degraded, and this says it all.

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XXII. – : MÉTAPHORES.

Posted on October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 by studentofliberty

On altère, on force, on déprave le sens de trois ou quatre mots, et tout est dit.

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XXI. – : MATIÈRES PREMIÈRES.

Posted on October 2, 2020 by studentofliberty

Ainsi nous arrivons à ce résultat, que tous les sophismes économiques, malgré leur infinie variété, ont cela de commun qu’ils confondent le moyen avec le but, et développent l’un aux dépens de l’autre.

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XXI. – RAW MATERIALS.

Posted on October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 by studentofliberty

We therefore come to the conclusion that all economic sophisms, in spite of their infinite variety, have this in common: they confuse the means with the end and develop one at the expense of the other.

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XX. – HUMAN LABOR AND DOMESTIC LABOR.

Posted on October 1, 2020 by studentofliberty

And truly, there is some pleasure in facing intrepid debaters who, even when they are wrong, take their line of reasoning to its limit.

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XX. – TRAVAIL HUMAIN, TRAVAIL NATIONAL.

Posted on October 1, 2020 by studentofliberty

Et vraiment il y a plaisir d’avoir affaire à des argumentateurs intrépides, qui, même dans l’erreur, poussent un raisonnement jusqu’au bout.

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XIX. – INDÉPENDANCE NATIONALE.

Posted on September 30, 2020November 12, 2020 by studentofliberty

Je sais bien qu’on me reprochera (c’est la mode du jour) de donner pour base à la fraternité des peuples l’intérêt, le vil et prosaïque intérêt.

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XIX. – NATIONAL INDEPENDANCE.

Posted on September 30, 2020September 17, 2021 by studentofliberty

I am fully aware that I will be blamed (for this is the current fashion) for resting fraternity between nations on self-interest, vile and prosaic interest.

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XVIII. – THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTE PRINCIPLES.

Posted on September 29, 2020October 6, 2020 by studentofliberty

You are faced with two paths and you have to choose; and one inevitably leads to poverty.

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XVIII. – IL N’Y A PAS DE PRINCIPES ABSOLUS.

Posted on September 29, 2020September 1, 2023 by studentofliberty

Vous êtes en présence de deux routes, il faut choisir, et l’une mène nécessairement à la misère.

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XVII. – UN CHEMIN DE FER NÉGATIF.

Posted on September 28, 2020 by studentofliberty

J’ai dit que lorsque, malheureusement, on se plaçait au point de vue de l’intérêt producteur, on ne pouvait manquer de heurter l’intérêt général, parce que le producteur, en tant que tel, ne demande qu’efforts, besoins et obstacles.

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XVII. – A NEGATIVE RAILWAY.

Posted on September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 by studentofliberty

I have said that when, unfortunately, we took the point of view of the producers’ interest, we could not fail to clash with the general interest, since producers, as such, demand only effort, needs, and obstacles.

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XVI. – BLOCKED RIVERS PLEADING IN FAVOR OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS.

Posted on September 25, 2020September 28, 2020 by studentofliberty

For the channeling of the Garonne would encourage the invasion of products from Toulouse to the detriment of Bordeaux and the flooding of products from Bordeaux to the detriment of Toulouse.

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XVI. – LES FLEUVES OBSTRUÉS PLAIDANT POUR LES PROTECTIONNISTES.

Posted on September 25, 2020 by studentofliberty

Car la canalisation de la Garonne favorisera, au préjudice de Bordeaux, l’invasion des produits toulousains, et, au détriment de Toulouse, l’inondation des produits bordelais.

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XV. – ENCORE LA RÉCIPROCITÉ.

Posted on September 24, 2020June 30, 2021 by studentofliberty

N’est-il pas plaisant que vous infligiez d’ores et déjà ce régime, dans la crainte qu’il ne coure la chance d’y arriver un jour sans vous?

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XV. – MORE RECIPROCITY.

Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 by studentofliberty

Is it not ludicrous that you are already inflicting this regime on the nation for fear that it will run the risk of reaching it one day without you?

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XIV. – A CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES.

Posted on September 23, 2020October 1, 2020 by studentofliberty

Protectionist systems, colonial systems: these are therefore just two aspects of the same theory.

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XIV – CONFLIT DE PRINCIPES.

Posted on September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 by studentofliberty

Système protecteur, système colonial: ce ne sont donc que deux aspects d’une même théorie.

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XIII. – THÉORIE, PRATIQUE.

Posted on September 22, 2020 by studentofliberty

Il vaut mieux acheter à autrui ce qu’il en coûte plus cher de faire soi-même.

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XIII. – THEORY AND PRACTICE.

Posted on September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 by studentofliberty

It is better to purchase from others what it would cost more to produce ourselves.

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XII. – DOES PROTECTION INCREASE THE RATE OF PAY?

Posted on September 21, 2020 by studentofliberty

With a given amount of capital and labor, a quantity of output is created that decreases in proportion to the number of obstacles it encounters.

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